Technical Description of Power of Siberia

The pipeline is expected to cost 770 billion roubles and the investment in the gas production is 430 billion roubles.^[1] It is expected to be operational by 2019.^[5] Capacity of the 56-inch (1,400 mm) pipeline would be up to 61 billion cubic metres per annum (2.2×10¹² cu ft/a) of natural gas.^[6] 38 billion cubic metres per annum (1.3×10¹² cu ft/a) would be supplied to China.^[5][7]